The third annual Automotive Heritage Awards will be presented at 10 AM on July 26th in the Brembo media hospitality tent on the grounds of the Concours d’Elegance of America at St. Johns. Four distinct competitions comprise the AHA: the Automotive Heritage Journalism Competition, Future Collectible Vehicle of the Year, Concept Vehicle of the Year, and the Automotive Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award. The Automotive Women’s Alliance Foundation will also present a scholarship award at the event.
Kiekert AG, leading supplier of locking systems to the auto industry, returns to sponsor the Automotive Heritage Journalism Competition honoring the “stories best told” in ten categories:
- Best Car Culture Story
- Best Automotive Travel or Adventure Story
- Best Personality Profile Story
- Best Marque-Specific Story
- Best Facility Story
- Best Heritage Motorsport Story
- Best Restoration or Repair Story
- Best Blog of Column (including opinion) based on 5 examples
- Best Automotive Heritage Book
- Best Audio or Video Story
Eligible stories are those published in calendar 2019. Deadline for entries is May 31st. Judging is by leading automotive journalists led by Csaba Csere and Gary Witzenburg. Trophies are presented at the Concours d’Elegance of America, Plymouth, MI on July 26th. Winners and their works are profiled in our press kit and on our Website. Entry information is at: https://autoheritagefoundation.org/portfolio/automotive-heritage-journalism-awards/#rules
The AHF Concept Vehicle of the Year competition is managed by Brian Baker, former GM senior designer and president of the Leland Chapter of the Society of Automotive Historians who assemble a team of design professionals to consider those concept vehicles presented during the just-passed auto show season.
The AHF Future Collectible Vehicle of the Year award, founded and previously juried by the National Automotive History Collection at the Detroit Public Library, honors the vehicle on sale in the U.S. today costing less than $100,000 that we’ll most likely see at a car show 25 years hence. The NAHC will not host that competition this year so it remains open to sponsorship.
We think of the Automotive Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award as our most important. It is for those who, in the eyes of his/her peers, made a substantial contribution to the craft of automotive journalism for a period of 25 years or more and have aided and inspired the development of the next generation of auto journalists. Ours is an extension of the awards presented by the International Automotive Media Competition in years past. Those winners, and ours, appear on our permanent trophy that resides at the LeMay – America’s Car Museum in Tacoma, WA.
The Automotive Heritage Awards is a project of the Automotive Heritage Foundation whose mission is to preserve and promote automotive history, culture and aesthetics. Members of the AHF who are journalists will get one free entry in the Journalism Competition. The Foundation is a 501(c)3 charitable non-profit.
Please join us in support of this important mission.
